[At-Large] Say Whut!

Thu Dec 13 20:02:33 UTC 2018

Interesting comments:

In Kenya the Kenya ICT Action Network (www.kictanet.or.ke) has in the last
two years been deliberate and intentional in bringing new voices into the
Internet Governance conversation. The end result has been nomination of a
Youth representative to the African IGF MAG (alumni of the Kenya School of
Internet Governance. And participation of many youth in Internet Governance
through the Digital Grass roots program. The Internet Society Kenya Chapter
(an accredited ALS) www.internetsociety.or.ke has also been organizing
webinars focused on the Internet Governance Forum and hosted a Youth
convening on the Internet Governance Forum for the Digital Grassroots
Ambassadors in the course of 2018. The ICANN 63 readout for the community
was also organized by the Nairobi Engagement Centre for ICANN. In Kenya
engagement with Internet Users are at the heart of the Internet Governance
debate. In short ALs's are very active on the ground.

Regards

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:39 PM Nenad Marinkovic <nenad at marinkovic.rs>
wrote:

> We are trying in Belgrade/Serbia to push IG dialog. Our experience is that
> academic discussion is not interested for users, they prefer practical
> issues, hot topics like e-payment, bitcoins, on line protection, while
> business users are interested for their part of business (intellectual
> property rights , illegal trading on line) and they like live
> multi-stakeholder discussion. Recently, two or three weeks ago we managed
> to organize 2h IG session, first hour we had people who are experienced
> with IG capable to explain  what is ICANN, IGF, EuroDIG, topics etc. In
> second hour we talked about digital gap, education, on line trading, ethic
> and on line behavior and 2 hours were short, almost nobody of thirty
> visitor did not leave event and all of them signed initiative for
> establishing regular IG dialogue. Now we are planning to send this
> initiative to all stakeholders etc.
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> I want to say that ICANN and At Large have  to decide if experts are
> target or users, or both. Strategies or tactics  are different and of
> course we have to come closer to users. It seems to me that most of people
> involved in ICANN and At Large stay to far from users , reasons are
> different and I don’t want to elaborate about this. Answer is simple, every
> stakeholder has its own interests and view. ICANN and At Large have to
> keep global view and help to all stake holders to participate,  specially
> to users and to adopt discussion to that level. Through this entry level,
> lot of users will find useful answers and some of them will continue to
> participate in ICANN.
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> Maybe I do not understand well what IG is, but for me it is the life
> governance and life is theory and practice, background and front. I
> understand that user experience all around the world is not the same, so
> topics will be different or discussion level will be different.
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> Or maybe ICANN is corporation… just like registries and registrars. In
> that case there is no difference if we are on line or off line.
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> Pozdrav/regards/поздрав
>
> Nenad
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>
> *From:* At-Large [mailto:at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Marita Moll
> *Sent:* Thursday, 13 December, 2018 18:47
> *To:* at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> *Subject:* Re: [At-Large] Say Whut!
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> I would certainly echo Suzannah's point. Here in Ottawa we are also trying
> to build our community on the ground.  It is happening but slowly -- one
> person/group at a time. One just has to keep at it. But the ability to
> broaden our reach with technology is crucial. We don't have the funds to do
> a traveling road show. Not everyone is an ISOC chapter -- so ICANN needs to
> make tools like Livestream  available to all groups and individuals in At
> Large who are doing outreach.
>
> Marita
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> On 12/13/2018 12:27 PM, Susannah Gray wrote:
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> On 13/12/2018 00:51, Joly MacFie wrote:
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> >  ALSes as a conduit to their members
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> Slowly but surely, at least here in NYC, the Readout program appears
> fruitful in this aspect.
>
> - And in San Francisco. As an ALS (San Francisco Bay Area ISOC Chapter) we
> keep our members informed through the Readouts and through updates about
> key ICANN issues on our website/in the Chapter newsletters.
>
> However getting our members to actually participate is a tough call,
> mainly because it's quite hard to 'sell' At-Large and even harder for those
> with little background knowledge of ICANN to get up to speed quickly enough
> to be able to participate effectively.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Susannah
>
> —
> Susannah Gray
> President
> San Francisco Bay Area Internet Society Chapter
> www.sfbayisoc.org
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